Building a Home for the Laws of the World: Part II: Hoping, Hunting, and Honing

Authors

Margaret A. Leary, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2004

Abstract

The following feature is the second, concluding portion of the edited version of "Building a Foreign Law Collection at the University of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960,"© Margaret A. Leary, 2002, which originally appeared at 94 Law Library Journal 395-425 (2002), and appears here with permission of the author. The first part of the article (46.2 Law Quadrangle Notes 46-53 [Summer 2003] detailed how the vision of Dean Henry Bates, generosity of graduate William W. cook, and skills of librarian/traveler/negotiator Hobart Coffey combined to launch the building of the Law Library's international collection into one of the best in the world.

Recommended Citation

Leary, Margaret A. "Building a Home for the Laws of the World: Part II: Hoping, Hunting, and Honing." Law Quad. Notes 46, no. 3/47, no. 1 (2004): 51-61. (Excerpted and adapted from an article originally published under the title "Building a Foreign Law Collection at the University of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960." Law Libr. J. 94, no. 3 (2002): 395-425.)